Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 210, Ed. 1 Monday, October 28, 1946 Page: 4 of 4
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CHAPTER NO- 3
["THE PHANTOM RIDER"
OBSERVER-
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vention wan "Nubbin" Alcorn,
Commanvhe. who makes most o£
them ... Doy le Graves reported
to have cooked some tine chill
tor John Tar le too.'* rodet^
Machinery said to have arrfced
for new brick plant BUI
Pitzer remarking he has heard
that some A & M-Texas game
tickets hav« sold tor as high as
S30W ... A Luooock ttxan re-
marking that he has come to Pos-
sum Kingman fr'ismng us many
times a twice a month and al-
ways hirtinj; to Wave if the w«i
(her is good Visitors to con
ventiun heard making favorable
remarks on Breekenridge golf
course as seen from club house ..
.. and Jaycees arguing over pro-
posed hospital bonds as though it
was about to split up membership
then voting 30 to 2 to endorse
bond Issue.
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Workers Get Mousing Break
BERNE tnd—A Berne garment
firm has bought an ft-room house
to alleviate the housing shortage
among- employes. The firm plans
to remoilel the house into a dor-
mitory for women euipluy
LAST
DAY
IT S GEORGE RAFTS
KIND OF* ACTION
GEORGE RAFT
SYLVIA SIDNEY
THURSDAY A FRIDAY
MR. ACE
BUGS BUNNY CARTOON
"THE BIG SNOOZE"
NOVELTY — NEVUS
Tomorrow and
Wednesday
The Most Talked
About JXotrel Of
Our Time
HON. & WES.
NIGHT 11:30
2 Killer-Diller
"Who Done ItV*
On The Same
We Dare Yon
To See Them Bo
NO. 1
Second Feature
Sons KA R L O F F
N O. 2
A Crirno Doctor Picture!
PRICES—
Adults 4ft Tax
Children ............ 10 T 2—
Thursday Night
11:30 O'CLOCK
AGGIES DROP BAYLOR t-4-0 Playing before a capacity crowd in. Waco. Tesas, me Texas AAAI
Aggies came back in the second half to defeat the Baylor Bears. 14-0. No. 33. Dusek. A&tt back,
takes off around his left end fur an 8-yard gain. Other players are: No. 23v Baylor, Mhngum; No.
80, AiiM. Prokopy No. 50, Baylor. Jack. (NEA PHOTOV
Showing At The PALACE Starting Tues.
W. 'Somerest Maugham's Greatest Novel of Our Time
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Eleanor Parker ami Paul Hcnrcid toa>c their future lupfmios m WaiaeiS
dramatic and pas-ion.itr Morv, "Ot Human Bondage.'
Plon Class D
Baseball League
"BED MILL" UNDERSTUDY OVERCOMES OBSTACLES AND
MAKES GOOD—aaO-YEAH-OLD PLAT SCHEDULED
By JACK GAVER
United Press Drama Editor
NEW YORK—The most amazing understudy story of the year to
date is that of J:*ek Albertson of the "The Red Mill,." who is getting
featured billing in that successful revival these days. Ke has triumphed
over practically everything, including his failure to be on. hand when
his gulden oooortunitv came.
Albertson ha* a show business)
family background and himself
has acted in stocky road companies
and played minor roles in a few
Broadway efforts. He needed a joB
when "The Red Still" came to
town almost a year ago and took
the best thimt offered, understudy-
to .Michael 0'Shea. one of the two
comics in -the operetta. O'Shea's
health was good and Albertson
found time hanging on his hands.
Ke got himself up m the lines of
the other comic. Eddie Fdy.
0'Shea dropped out last spring
to return to Hollywood, but Albert-
son remained an understudy. The
producers wanted a "name" and
hired Jack Whiting. Albertson be.
gan doing radio work at night,
but he always cheeked at the thea-
ter at S p.m. and & p.m. to see
whether he would be needed.
Re made the first cheek on July
and everything was okay. But
he got involved in a big dinner
party and uegiected to check
Monarch
Butterflies Due
In Monterey
PAClFtf GROVE, till.—Every
-uritw duy a Tew more of Pacific
j G.'ov's world famous winter rest- (
dent*—the Monarch butterfly—
i may lie seen flittirar around gar-
dens in this Monterey Ptemnsutn.
city.
The few herald the approach, of
i he duy when millions of the beau-
tiful orange and black insects wing
across Monterey Buy for their an-
| imal visit.
felach year within living memory
! :;he Monarch? have flown into Pa-
: eifii Grov-.' late in October or early
' in November.
Front the time of their arrival
until Starch of the following year,
the winged beauties divide their
time between hibernating in. a
! sriove of pine and oak treses oti
| Point Pino*, at the northwestern
j tip of town, and sipping the nectar
■ if a species ef miikwuetl found in
fields nearby.
During the ocuusionat winter
rainstorms the butterfBe* clinic to
their selected trees in dull, almost
Hfetess masses. Though the top
ides of their wings are brightly
colore* 1. ihe town- surfaces ar"
in iiicunsoicimus grayish-brown,—a
protective device wasted on them.
In^ect-enling birds steer clear ol'
these te ini>ting morsels, presum-
ably because the bugs' inclination
toward milkweed neetar renders
them unpalatable.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 211.—A
tali Virginian who invaded the
New Orleans Cotton Exchange in
tlRt with $300 bar rowed capital
which he can to *1,000,000 in a
year was out of the cotton busi-
ness today after forcing the New
i Orleans and New York Cotton Ex-
! changes to close their doors.
I Slim Tom Jordan liquidated his
I vast holdings in. a move that dfcop-
t, ped Uy-cent a pound cotton fu-
tures to 33 cents and cost growers
an estimated $ M),0W>,UQ0 tn three
days of trading.
"t haven't got a thing to say,"
Jordan, said. ut don't kmtw what
there is to say."
The exchanges were open again
and observers said the trading was
healthy today.
Jordan's hand wiy* forced, mem-
bers of the cotton exchange said.
A spot (immediate delivery firm)
already possessed hedges in the
market to cover cotton bought for
future sales. The spot firm
"bought in these hedges," match-
ing its short contracts ugainst
Jordan's long contracts. The move
found Jordan between 175,000 and
tSHKMO' bates, "long" on a break-
ing market,, accenting to cotton;
experts here. The "dumping"
caused cotton futures to plummet.
Experts at the exchuuge estima-
ted Jordan's toss at between $4,-
375,000 and f4;750,0i)0. provding
he absorbed the full $25 per bale
drop of last week. The experts'
explained further that Hie spot
house probably could sell several
hundred thousand hales to cotton
mills in the immediate future, and
said there was tittle likelihood
that these hedges again would
come on the market.
Jordan has been down before.
Hie went dawn in motors in the 20'$.
After buying General Motors at
50 and watching it sour to around
140, he was caught in the market
crash, tie started that venture
with a few hundred dollars bor-
rowed against his salary in tlJ24.
shortly after his graduation from
William and Mary College.
He started tn cotton the same
way. Jordan borrowed 1300 from
a bank, saying he wanted it to pay
back taxes. He ran the loan to
something tike $1,700 at the South-
port. La., gambling tables, and
borrowed another $300 against the
salary which he paid himself as
owner and sole employe
Canal Barge Co. He ran i
to $1,000,000 in the New
Cotton Exchange in tiMkl. *
Close observers uf the- market
here estimated Jordan had
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HOME TOWN
NEWS
"Black cuts can t scare me.
Rastus. l iust had my tiara
checked and repaired at tne
CARLTON TIRE SERVICE."
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X-rays loin
ABILENE. Tex.. Oct. ->5.—Or-j MilKon-Volt'
ganization of a Class D baseball!*
league will be discussed^ Sunday,
Nov. tO at Sweet water by repre-
sentatives of at leust nine West
Texas cities.
Plans for the meeting were an-
nounced toduy by Howard Green,
general manager of the Abilene
Blue Sox. Green, also a sports
writer for the Abilene Reporter-
News, reported that there was
strong sentiment for the league
over a wide west Texas area.
CHICAGO. — Two one-million
volt X-rays, built to test war
metals, will enter the lists against
cancer, Stanley B. Adams, war as-
sets officer here, announced.
The WAA sold the X-rays tn the
Veterans Administration for dfeep
Cities expected to be represented I therapy in the cancer battle,,
at the Sweetwater meeting are Bal- "® SJUtI-
linger, San Angelo, Sweetwater,
Coleman, Midland, Big Spring, j
Odessa,. Brownwod and Brady.
Massachusetts
ni'l< gv, hut in the summer Prof.
6.dward R. Schwartz writes poetry
—gooU enough to win him the
poetry tourney at the Maine Writ-
ers' tuiferenee.
-. ... . at"
eigitt o'clock, tt was about then' Sctenliist Wihik Muse
that everyone a* the theater was! CAMBRIDGE, Ma.=?.—b. winter
p>ing craxy.^Poy had bean taken. |jB a a wnrlit-famous scientist and
to the hospital for an emergency expert m textile technology at the
Uperaton. Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
tn. desperation stage manager
Chester O'Brien went on and play-
ed Foy's role that night. Albertson
got there the next thing, but again
the "name" replacement idea got
the best of him. Benny Baker took
over the role, but at the end of
the week decided that he and the
part didn't gt> well together. Al-
bertson stepped in again until an-
other well-known player could be
engaged, but this time he had a
little longer chance to show what
he could do and stayed. The fea-
tured billing just accorded him is
his reward for a job well done. Foy
is now out of the hospital, but will
not be playing for a few weeks
yet. He had a close call.
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Theater tnc. has announced its
intention of making a 300-year-
old play called "The Changeling"
its first New York production this
'season. The play wa.; written by
' Thomas Middleton and William
Rowley.
Morris Houghton, a member of
the board of the organization, pre-
pared an acting version of the
classic this summer and put it on
in London. Ont. The other direc-
tors were impressed by the pro-
duction. The first Theater Inc. of-
fering this season wilt be Burgess
Meredith in the J. St Syng* play
"Tha' Playboy of tha. Western
World."
CITY TO EXPAND
FOR® W ORTK. Tex.—This Nortli
Texas city is about roacbr to
m ifc. r
Ramsey Studio
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let the F.-wt
sprawl out until
iaf**se city in Tasaa in areac Thw
addition would adit approximately
■tUfcOOftOOft in taxable valuations
to the city tax rolls—«r $3O0vM
we annual for tfe fmasn.
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